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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-49, February 2025.This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide ...
Catherine Cubitt
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Domitian and the Roman economy: some notes
RUDN Journal of World HistoryA comprehensive assessment of the state of the Roman economy during the reign of Emperor Domitian is difficult due to the unsatisfactory state of the sources, therefore it is necessary to proceed from the available information.
Victor N. Parfyonov
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Pliniu cel Tânăr și împăratul Traian [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2020 In his discourse uttered with the occasion of assuming the function of consul, Pliny the Younger did not spare praise of Trajan. His encomium depicts Trajan as an ideal princeps, his virtues being contrasted with the defects of Domitian, perceived as a ...
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY AND THE ROMAN LAND CADASTER
RUDN Journal of World History, 2014 The Flavian dynasty had systematically affected all the standards of the Augustus’. Guided by special “law of land pieces” - ius subsecivorum , which was developed by Augustus, Vespasian organized in Italy a large-scaled census of territories.
I A Gvozdeva
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Commenting on music in Juvenal's sixth satire
Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 541-562, September 2024.Abstract The satires of Juvenal were immensely popular in Renaissance Italy, printed in various forms over 70 times in the period 1469‐1520, and five times in 1501 alone. The satires contain a wealth of references to instruments, instrumentalists, and playing practices that are frequently used in double entendres connoting lewd acts and infidelity ...
Ciara O'Flaherty, Tim Shephard
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Drones, 2020 This project aimed to systematically investigate the archaeological remains of the imperial Domitian villa in Sabaudia (Italy), using different three-dimensional survey techniques.
Diego Ronchi +2 more
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Palladia Tolosa : fantaisie de poète ou évergésie impériale ?
Pallas, 2016 How can we understand the grouping of words Palladia (…) Tolosa operated by Martial in an epigram dating from AD 94 ? According to the traditional thesis, such a phrase has been created in well-read circles and is but a poetic equivalent for “Toulouse, a
Jean-Marie Pailler
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The vices of emperor Constans I in the fourth century histories [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2008 The aim of this paper is to analyze the negative characteristics of the Roman emperor Constans I (337-350), according to the earliest preserved information from the late 4th century histories of Aurelius Victor, Eutropius Pseudo-Victor and Eunapius of ...
Milivojević Uroš
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‘EDICTUM DOMITIANI DE PRIVILEGIIS VETERANORUM’. EDYKT CESARZA DOMICJANA O PRZYWILEJACH WETERANÓW
Zeszyty Prawnicze, 2016 ‘Edictum Domitiani de Privilegiis Veteranorum’: The Emperor Domitian’s Edict on Veterans’ Privileges Summary This article contains the text and translation of the Edictum Domitiani on veterans’ privileges with a commentary.
Adam Świętoń, Konrad Tadajczyk
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